The Leeds Nineteenth Century Reading Group Special Session 27th April

The Leeds Nineteenth Century Reading Group meets once a month to discuss a variety of texts written during the Nineteenth Century. Each member of the group has the opportunity to suggest a text for discussion. We welcome anyone who has an interest in the literature of the period, including undergraduates, postgraduates, staff and real people (members of the public). The Reading Group provides members with an opportunity to discuss their ideas in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Also, as each meeting is on different material, there is no obligation to come to every meeting.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 27th April, at 5.15pm in the School of English (Seminar Room 5). This will be a ‘special session’ of the reading group in which two of our regular members, David Ibitson and Dr. Beth Palmer, will present papers. We will have a combined Q&A/Reading group discussion afterwards. It would be great if  people could read all of the material in time for the session, but if this is not possible then please do come along to the papers anyway.

David will be talking on ‘Jerome K. Jerome and Imperial Parody’, focusing on Three Men in a Boat. This text is available in the library and in most bookshops. It is also available for free in e-text form here http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/308 and here http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=title:three%20men%20in%20a%20boat%20AND%20mediatype:texts

and as a free audio download here:
http://librivox.org/three-men-in-a-boat-by-jerome-k-jerome/

Beth will be talking on the subject of ‘Being ‘Dickensy’ in the Victorian periodical press’. Some of the criticism discussed can be 
found by following these links:

Dickens, ‘A Flight’, Household Words, 3 (August 1851), pp. 529-533.
http://0-britishperiodicals.chadwyck.co.uk.wam.leeds.ac.uk/articles/displayItemFromId.do?QueryType=articles&ItemID=x164-1851-003-75-000369

Collins ‘The Unknown Public’, Household Words, 18 (1858), 217-22.
http://0-britishperiodicals.chadwyck.co.uk.wam.leeds.ac.uk/articles/displayItemFromId.do?QueryType=articles&ItemID=x164-1858-018-39-000393

Sala, ‘The Cant of Modern Criticism’, Belgravia 4 (November 1867), 45-55
http://0-britishperiodicals.chadwyck.co.uk.wam.leeds.ac.uk/articles/displayItemFromId.do?QueryType=articles&ItemID=e502-1867-004-00-000162

These links are accessible with a University password. If this does not work for you, please let me know and we can make other 
arrangements to get the material to you.

Also, the Group budget is now depleted, so if you would like to bring something to eat or drink (alcoholic or otherwise) then please feel free to do so! We hope to see you on the 27th. If you can, please try to think of reading suggestions for the following meeting.

For those requiring a map: click on the map on the following URL. The School is number 76. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus_map/

If anyone has a query, please email one of the organisers.

All best,

Owen Clayton (engotc@leeds.ac.uk)
Alice Crossley (eng5acc@leeds.ac.uk)
Louisa Hodgson (eng2ljch@leeds.ac.uk)

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